Cardiologists awake , lets us learn echocardiography right from the fetus : The link to excellent resources for learning feta
Posted Nov 18 2009 10:01pm
Fetal echocardiography is an important imaging modality for screening fetuses with congenital heart disease.Not all cardiologists are familiar with this imaging . Obstetricians are also not well versed in these techniques.So, finally, it is left to few specialised radiologists to do this job. The issue here is they are less in number and the need for the experise is huge. Further , the fetal cardiac hemodynamics and anatomy are too complex to comprehend for a non cardiologist . So it is argued every clinical cardiologist to get trained in the basics of fetal echocardiography.
There are dedicated institutes and people who do this mode of imaging.
One such place is www.fetal.com
See for yourself the excellent information and knowledge resource in this site.
Fetal echocardiography is an important imaging modality for screening fetuses with congenital heart disease.Not all cardiologists are familiar with this imaging . Obstetricians are also not well versed in these techniques.So, finally, it is left to few specialised radiologists to do this job. The issue here is they are less in number and the need for the experise is huge. Further , the fetal cardiac hemodynamics and anatomy are too complex to comprehend for a non cardiologist . So it is argued every clinical cardiologist to get trained in the basics of fetal echocardiography.
There are dedicated institutes and people who do this mode of imaging.
One such place is www.fetal.com
See for yourself the excellent information and knowledge resource in this site.
http://www.fetal.com/FetalEcho/04%20Standard.html
Other .popular books on fetal echocardiography
Juri W. Wladimiroff, G. Pilu
Lindsey Allan